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The Survival of the Jesuits in the Low Countries, 1773-1850
How the Jesuits re-emerged after forty years of suppression In 1773, Pope Clement XIV suppressed the Society of Jesus. For the 823 Jesuits living in the Low Countries, it meant the end of their institutional religious life. In the Austrian Netherlands, the Jesuits were put under strict surveillance, but in the Dutch Republic they were able to continue their missionary work. It is this regional contrast and the opportunities it offered for the Order to survive that make the Low Countries an exceptional and interesting case in Jesuit history. Just as in White Russia, former Jesuits and new Jesuits in the Low Countries prepared for the restoration of the Order, with the help of other religious,...
The Life of St. Thomas of Villanova
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Greek Scholars between East and West in the Fifteenth Century
Although the immense importance for the Renaissance of Greek émigrés to fifteenth-century Italy has long been recognized, much basic research on the phenomenon remains to be done. This new volume by John Monfasani gathers together fourteen studies filling in some of the gaps in our knowledge. The philosophers George Gemistus Pletho and George Amiroutzes, the great churchman Cardinal Bessarion, and the famous humanists George of Trebizond and Theodore Gaza are the subjects of some of the articles. Other articles treat the émigrés as a group within the wider frame of contemporary issues, such as humanism, the theological debate between the Orthodox and Roman Catholics, and the process of translating Greek texts into Latin. Furthermore, some notable Latin figures also enter into several of the articles in a detailed way, specifically, Nicholas of Cusa, Niccolò Perotti, and Pietro Balbi.
Inventario. Chiesa e Fondazione Reale Belga San Giuliano dei Fiamminghi a Roma
“L’inventario di codesto archivio è la chiave che apre ai ricercatori l’accesso ad un ricchissimo patrimonio documentario la cui investigazione potrà gettare nuove luci sui rapporti tra i Fiamminghi e la Roma nel passato”. Cardinale Walter Brandmüller
